Speaking of abortion...............................

merrylander · #1 04-10-2011, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by JJIII

The way I read post #18 is the woman was the baby, she was not the mother. Be that as it may, if a woman gives birth to a baby she doesn't want, there is always adoption.

That was the way I read the post as well. However with regard to adoption, this country has what may well be the most screwed up adoption laws in the world. Imagine that you adopt a child, nurture it and love it for 12 months, then the natural father comes along and demands the child. Had that sort of thing been allowed in Canada and had it happened I don't know what I would have done. You might as well cut open a person's chest and tear their heart out.

And it has happened here, I don't doubt but what the natural father's intent was extortion.

JJIII · #2 04-10-2011, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

That was the way I read the post as well. However with regard to adoption, this country has what may well be the most screwed up adoption laws in the world. Imagine that you adopt a child, nurture it and love it for 12 months, then the natural father comes along and demands the child. Had that sort of thing been allowed in Canada and had it happened I don't know what I would have done. You might as well cut open a person's chest and tear their heart out.

And it has happened here, I don't doubt but what the natural father's intent was extortion.

I can't argue with you on those points. How do we address making the necessary changes?

merrylander · #3 04-10-2011, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JJIII

I can't argue with you on those points. How do we address making the necessary changes?

John I really don't know for I have given up on our legislators. I could say to them Simply adopt Canada's adoption laws. I could also go to Alaska and wrestle with a grizzly. The outcome would be much the same. It seems that we here believe that no other country in the world knows anything. That we are the source of all knowledge and therefore can do no wrong. I'm old and I'm tired and sometimes wonder why I keep on trying.

JJIII · #4 04-10-2011, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

John I really don't know for I have given up on our legislators. I could say to them Simply adopt Canada's adoption laws. I could also go to Alaska and wrestle with a grizzly. The outcome would be much the same. It seems that we here believe that no other country in the world knows anything. That we are the source of all knowledge and therefore can do no wrong. I'm old and I'm tired and sometimes wonder why I keep on trying.

As long as there is one small voice crying out in the dark there is no consenting silence.

(Jeez... where did that come from? Am I channeling somebody?)

Combwork · #5 04-10-2011, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

That was the way I read the post as well. However with regard to adoption, this country has what may well be the most screwed up adoption laws in the world. Imagine that you adopt a child, nurture it and love it for 12 months, then the natural father comes along and demands the child. Had that sort of thing been allowed in Canada and had it happened I don't know what I would have done. You might as well cut open a person's chest and tear their heart out.

And it has happened here, I don't doubt but what the natural father's intent was extortion.

I've read post 18 again; I got that one totally wrong.

Jim.